UA - Anchorage

LeeAnn Munk

lamunk@alaska.edu

Dr. Munk is currently a Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences where she conducts research on the hydrogeochemistry of nutrients and elements across a broad spectrum of hydrologic and climate regimes from the subarctic of Alaska to the Andean Plateau. She teaches courses in geochemistry, environmental geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, earth resources, and field-based courses. 

Brown University

Daniel Enrique Ibarra

daniel_ibarra@brown.edu

Dr. Ibarra is a biogeochemist and climate scientist working on the water and carbon cycles. This includes studying modern rivers and catchments, as well as the terrestrial geologic record (lakes, soils, and caves), to understand Earth system processes that link the biosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere. The aim of this work is to gain a better understanding of how the Earth’s water and carbon cycles respond to forcings, including ongoing anthropogenic climate change.

UA - Anchorage

Jordan Jenckes

jjenckes2@alaska.edu

Dr. Jenckes is a lead researcher in the AK CM Hydro Lab, pursuing a post doc in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Jordan specializes in the analysis, integration, and interpretation of massive environmental data sets. He is an emerging expert in the hydrogeochemistry of watersheds impacted by permafrost degradation. He is also the lead of geochemical modeling for the lab.

UT - Dallas

Kristina Butler

kristina.butler@utexas.edu

Dr. Butler is NSF EAR postdoctoral researcher at Brown University and incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research focuses on using the sedimentary record to document orogenesis using sedimentology, geochronology, and geochemistry.